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Defining rape

Author: Linda Brookover Bourque
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©1989.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Linda Brookover Bourque
ISBN: 0822309017 9780822309017
OCLC Number: 18558079
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xix, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. Introduction. Rape and society -- Pt. II: Research and theory. Feminist theory and victims of rape ; Men who rape: psychodynamic and sociocultural evidence ; Individual definitions of rape: perspectives from attribution theory ; Institutional definitions of rape: the judiciary ; Community definitions of rape ; Summary of part II -- Pt. III. A community's definition of rape. Los Angeles study ; When a sexual encounter becomes a rape ; Ethnic, gender, and social-class differences in perceptions of rape ; Actors, causes, and solutions ; Respondents' personal and legal definitions of rape ; Rape in Los Angeles ; Los Angeles in context -- Pt. IV. Conclusions and implications. Defining rape in the United States -- Appendix 1. Questionnaire used in the Los Angeles study -- Appendix 2. Designing and analyzing vignettes -- Appendix 3. Supplementary tables from the Los Angeles study.
Responsibility: Linda Brookover Bourque.

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